Anaheim officials say they won’t enforce a new law that imposes fines on short-term rental sites for listing homes and apartments that violate the city’s rental regulations. The policy change is the latest chapter in a heated battle between the city and hundreds of short-term rental properties...

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Prospective office renters in Los Angeles County are likely to have to dig deeper into their wallets as rents rise and empty space continues to fill up. Market improvements for landlords that emerged in the second half of 2014 continued in the first quarter. Businesses expanded faster than new...

Amid mounting pressure from housing advocates and community groups, Airbnb is cutting ties with some of its biggest money-makers. Two of the home-sharing giant's largest Los Angeles-area hosts — vacation-rental firms with dozens of apartments apiece — said Friday that Airbnb had dropped them from...

Red-hot rent growth is cooling in Southern California, but that doesn't mean an apartment is easy to find. The average rent paid in Los Angeles County in the first quarter climbed 2.4% compared to last year, to $1,520 a month, according to new figures out Thursday from real estate data firm Reis...

With less than two weeks until the Coachella music festival, the traditional last-minute panic to book someplace to stay is pushing hotel room prices up an average of more than 70%. Expect to pay $343 a night for a room at a cramped one-star hotel near the annual two-weekend bash at the Empire...

It's the great credit divide in American housing: If you buy a home and pay your mortgage on time regularly, your credit score typically benefits. If you rent an apartment and pay the landlord on time every month, you get no boost to your score. Since most landlords aren't set up or approved to...

Marriott International, the world’s largest hotel company, is letting some guests stream Netflix, Pandora and Hulu on their hotel television sets. Before you rush to book a Marriott room, the hotel giant is offering the feature only at eight hotels on a test basis. Marriott officials wouldn’t give...

Growing companies in Los Angeles County ramped up demand for office space in the fourth quarter, demonstrating that more businesses are confident about their prospects. The office market dipped in the recession and hit bottom about five years ago, but improvements afterward seemed to come grudgingly...

Southern California's red-hot rental market cooled down a bit at the end of 2014 as more new apartment buildings opened. Rents in Los Angeles County climbed a relatively modest 2.5% in the fourth quarter, compared with the same time a year earlier, according to new figures out Tuesday from real...

As Los Angeles City Council members launch a push for tougher regulations on short-term rental housing, the industry’s biggest player has begun touting its impact on the city. Airbnb, a San Francisco firm that helps people rent space in their homes like hotels, on Thursday is releasing a study...

The real estate investment wave remaking Echo Park and Silver Lake is spreading south of the Hollywood Freeway. An upscale apartment complex is under construction on a former vacant lot on Temple Street in Los Angeles' Westlake district. The 67-unit complex is one of several projects underway or...

For a long time, hunting for an apartment has meant wading through cryptic yard signs, inscrutable classifieds and frustrating games of phone tag. That's finally changing. Mobile-app start-ups, online real estate giants and even old-school local listing firms are gearing up to streamline the splintered...

While many Southern California apartment builders are racing to attract hip, single urbanites with lots of cash, one Los Angeles developer is taking a different tack and pursuing young families of more modest means. Decron Properties Corp. is buying and upgrading aging apartment complexes in semi-suburban...

More apartments are coming. A surge of multifamily construction powered better-than-expected gains in home building in September, according to new figures out Friday. The Census Bureau said housing starts climbed 6.3% from August, and through the first nine months of the year are running 9.5% ahead...

Housing construction picked up in September, buoyed by a surge in apartment-building. Housing starts increased 6.3% from August, according to new figures from the Census Bureau, a pace a bit faster than analysts expected. That figure was driven by a 18.5% jump in starts for buildings with five...

Renters, get ready to pay more to live in the Southland. The average cost of an apartment in the region is projected to grow more than 8% over the next two years, according to a new report out Tuesday, making one of the nation's least affordable rental markets even less so. The figures come from...

Renters, get ready to pay a little more. The cost of the average apartment in the Southland is projected to grow more than 8% over the next two years, according to a report out Tuesday. A new study from USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate projects that rents will climb 8.2% in Los Angeles County...

Question: After months of looking for an apartment close to my place of employment, I found a great place. I signed a month-to-month rental agreement and paid my first month's rent as well as what I thought was a security deposit. The manager promised to have the apartment ready in two weeks but...

For homeowners in Southern California, the housing recovery has been pretty kind. For renters, not so much. New figures highlight the growing gap between owners and renters in the Southland: Many homeowners are capitalizing on low interest rates to push down their monthly payment while renters...

The rent is getting higher, faster. The average rent in Los Angeles County has climbed 8.8% in the last year, according to a new report out Tuesday from real estate website Trulia, with the median two-bedroom apartment now going for $2,450. That's a significantly faster clip than the 5.4% annual...

It may be the biggest financial decision most of us ever make: Buy a house? Or keep renting? For a while in the wake of the housing crash, the answer was pretty clear: If you could swing it, buy now. But things have changed rapidly. Prices in Southern California have climbed by a third in two years....

More than 70% of apartment renters reported owning pets, with cats and dogs as the most popular types, according to a survey released Tuesday. Despite the high pet ownership numbers, the survey by Apartments.com found that it may still be hard for renters to find a pet-friendly apartment. Nearly...

The office market in Los Angeles County is picking up, even in long-suffering downtown L.A., as businesses once chastened by the Great Recession are opening up their purse strings. A growing number of businesses are taking the plunge and moving their offices when their leases expire. New leases...

Rents in Southern California may be running out of room to climb. The growth in apartment rents has slowed noticeably this year, according to new figures out Wednesday, the latest sign that housing is becoming too expensive for many Angelenos. The average price for an apartment in Los Angeles County...

The panel that determines how much landlords can raise costs of the city's 1 million rent-stabilized apartments approved a historic low increase of 1% for the next fiscal year, but in a raucous meeting Monday, it did not give tenants the rent freeze they demanded. The nine-member panel, which is...

Hisses filtered through the crowd as Loren Renz lamented the harsh winter's impact on her brownstone near Central Park, a building she bought 35 years ago. She had spent more than $50,000 since January fixing problems related to months of icy weather, Renz told the Rent Guidelines Board, which...

As online room-sharing service Airbnb Inc. battles authorities in the U.S., the company is using the upcoming FIFA World Cup to slide relatively comfortably into one of the world's major markets. In Brazil, which hosts the monthlong, internationally renowned soccer tournament starting Thursday,...

Rents are going to keep rising, say the people who own the buildings. Nearly 78% of Southern California apartment building owners say they plan to hike rents in the next 12 months, according to a new survey from real estate brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap. About 22% plan to increase rents by...

Buying a condo for your child near his or her college is often a sound investment. Giving your offspring a place to live eliminates the cost of rent. And if the condo is large enough — say, two or three bedrooms — the extra rooms can be rented to other students to help defray the cost of ownership....

Question: I am a widow who received a significant sum as a result of life insurance and the sale of our house when my husband died. As a result of this life-changing event, I need to move and I decided to rent rather than buy a new house. I found a lovely apartment and submitted an application,...